Saprophyte, 5½-8 cm. Stem simple, 1-flowered, seldom 2-flowered, beset with few appressed, lanceolate, subacute, 1-veined, slightly keeled, 1½- long, scale-like leaves. Bracts elliptical, acuminate, 1-veined, 1½ mm. Flowers purple or white with yellow limb, prominently winged, about 5 mm. Outer perianth lobes triangular with swollen margin, acuminate to apiculate, about 1 mm. Inner lobes erect, lanceolate-ovate, obtuse, about ½ mm. Perianth tube cylindrical, 1½ mm. Connective obtriangular, obtuse at the base, provided with 2 short, divergent crests at the apex. Style cylindrical, bearing 3 sessile, funnel-shaped stigmas. Ovary subglobose to ellipsoid, 2½ by 2 mm. Flower wings half-orbiculate to half-elliptical, about 4 by 2 mm. Capsule ellipsoid to obovoid, dehiscing with a transverse slit. Seeds scobiform to fusiform.
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